Visual Studio / .NET Framework -- Visual Studio Live!: Training Conferences and Events for Enterprise Microsoft .NET and Azure Developers

Visual Studio / .NET Framework

The latest Microsoft .NET Framework release includes exciting new capabilities that apply to any type of .NET application. Visual Studio 2013 provides ever more powerful features around debugging, architecture and application lifecycle management (ALM). Visual Studio Live! gives you the information you need to understand and leverage the power of .NET, Visual Studio, ALM, and the .NET Framework today and into the future. Topics in this track include:

Numerous new sessions focused on Visual Studio 2013 and Windows 8.x
ALM, Visual Studio tooling, Visual Studio Online, and DevOps
Asynchronous programming
Modern .NET development practices and principles

T05 What's New in the Visual Studio 2013 IDE Tuesday August 19 9:45am - 11:00am

Radhika Tadinada, Program Manager, Visual Studio Platform Team, Microsoft
Ji Eun Kwon , Program Manager, Microsoft

Come see demonstrations that show off the many new productivity improvements, how Visual Studio takes understanding code to the next level and other IDE features in the next version of Visual Studio. more

T07 Application Insights Overview: How to Keep Your Applications Available, Performing and Succeeding Tuesday August 19 11:15am - 12:30pm

Vlad Joanovic, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft

Learn about this new service and see how easy it is to get started directly from Visual Studio or from the local server. more

T14 DirectX Graphics Development with Visual Studio 2013 Tuesday August 19 2:30pm - 3:45pm

Rong Lu, Program Manager, Microsoft

Take a tour of the DirectX graphics tools and technologies in Visual Studio 2013 and latest updates. more

W20 ALM with Visual Studio 2013 and Team Foundation Server 2013 Wednesday August 20 3:15pm - 4:30pm

Brian Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

Look at the latest versions of Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server for your teams. more

TH03 Sexy Extensibility Patterns Thursday August 21 8:00am - 9:15am

Miguel Castro MRD, President, Melvicorp LLC

Exposing an API for your data or services has become commonplace, join Miguel as he shows you how to expose an API for changing or extending your applications functionality. more

TH05 Leveraging Visual Studio Online Thursday August 21 8:00am - 9:15am

Brian Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

In this session Brian will show the latest features of Visual Studio Online and how you use them. more

TH10 Essential C# 6.0 Thursday August 21 9:30am - 10:45am

Mark Michaelis, Chief Software Architect, IntelliTect

This session will show you how C# 6.0 will streamline your development and eliminate some of C#'s traditional ceremony. more

TH15 Performance and Diagnostics Hub in Visual Studio 2013 Thursday August 21 11:00am - 12:15pm

Brian Peek, Senior Technical Evangelist, Microsoft

In this session, we will take a detailed look at all of the tools that the Performance and Diagnostics Hub has to offer with both XAML and HTML/JavaScript Windows Store apps. more

TH20 Git for the Microsoft Developer Thursday August 21 2:15pm - 3:30pm

Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX

Come learn what Git is all about and differences between other popular version control systems like TFS and Subversion. more

TH25 Writing Asynchronous Code Using .NET 4.5 and C#5.0 Thursday August 21 3:45pm - 5:00pm

Brian Peek, Senior Technical Evangelist, Microsoft

This session will introduce the concepts of asynchronous programming, .NET Tasks, how to ensure your UI remains responsive, and how to do all of this properly in your own applications using the new "async" and "await" keywords. more